OPRAH!! Fantastic! Buy the Clippers, and I'm jumping on the bandwagon. Season tickets. I've liked the team, but with you in the mix, I'd LOVE the team. LA is big enough for two great teams, and with the right support, the Clippers and the Lakers could be the two best franchises...

"The team deserves a better group of owners who want to win. Larry would sooner die than fail. I would sooner die than fail. Larry's a sportsman. We've talked about this for a long time. Between the three of us, we have a good shot."

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is urging Sterling to sell the Clippers after league officials determined that Sterling made racially charged remarks in a recording that was released late last week.

Silver subsequently fined Sterling $2.5 million and banned him for life from the NBA for his incendiary remarks.

Winfrey, in reference to Sterling's comments, told TMZ on Tuesday that "the plantation days are over." She also denied having interest in purchasing the team on her own.

However, Winfrey's spokesperson, Nicole Nichols, issued a statement Wednesday confirming that she's in talks about becoming an investor.

"Oprah Winfrey is in discussions with David Geffen and Larry Ellison to make a bid for the Los Angeles Clippers should the team become available," Nichols said in the statement, according to ESPN.

Magic Johnson, Mark Walter and their Guggenheim Partners group are also being mentioned as potential bidders for the Clippers, though Johnson in an appearance on ESPN on Sunday said he was focused on bringing an NFL team to Los Angeles.

Additionally, boxing star Floyd Mayweather Jr. and music mogul Sean Combs have each expressed interest in buying the team.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he will continue to press Clippers owner Donald Sterling to give up his ownership of the NBA team, but said it may take a "protracted fight" before the 80-year-old billionaire agrees to sell.

Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling released a statement before Game 7 of her team's first-round playoff series against the Golden State Warriors on Saturday saying she supported the NBA's move to work with the franchise to appoint a new CEO.